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‘I’m a simple guy’: athlete George Mills, son of Danny, on his monastic regime

Runner hopeful of 3,000m medal at European IndoorsOf his plain diet, he says: ‘Flavour doesn’t make you fast’

When George Mills is not pushing his body through 120-mile training weeks at his sparse altitude camp in Dullstroom, South Africa, he could teach Benedictine monks a thing or two about abstinence.

Last summer, when he won a­­­ ­European Championships 1500m ­silver medal in Rome, his ­celebrations consisted of nothing but a kombucha followed by a lengthy run the next morning.

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